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Microsoft has warned that users of its Azure cloud may see higher-than-normal latency and intermittent disruptions after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer alternate routes while repair work and global rerouting continue. (reuters.com)...

This week’s channel headlines make one thing clear: vendors are sharpening routes to market for managed service providers, packaging flexibility and automation into partner programmes, subscription platforms and AI-first security products that are explicitly aimed at shrinking the gap between...

Microsoft has confirmed a second phase of mandatory multifactor authentication (MFA) that extends enforcement from Azure’s web admin consoles into the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) control plane — covering Azure CLI, Azure PowerShell, REST management APIs, mobile clients and...

August’s security headlines were dominated by a clutch of high-impact flaws — from archive utilities and consumer networking gear to enterprise-grade management consoles and cloud AI services — that together made rapid triage and patching unavoidable for defenders. Background The August 2025...

Title: A practical guide to the multicloud personalities of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud — what IT leaders should know in 2025 Lead The three hyperscalers — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) — all provide the raw building blocks enterprises expect: VMs...

Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, told reporters from his office at the Redmond campus that the company will “investigate and get to the truth” after a Guardian-led investigation alleged that Israel’s Unit 8200 had used Microsoft Azure to store and process vast troves of intercepted Palestinian...

The Pentagon has formally ended the long‑running practice of allowing China‑based Microsoft engineers to support Department of Defense cloud environments, ordering audits and vendor reviews that could reshape how major cloud providers service U.S. government systems. The move follows an...

India’s national cybersecurity agency has issued a high‑severity warning about a broad set of vulnerabilities across Microsoft products — a multi‑component risk that demands immediate patching and tighter operational controls from both home users and enterprise IT teams. (cert-in.org.in)...

Microsoft’s latest push to “harden Azure from silicon to systems” stitches together a clear thesis: security must be built into every layer of the cloud stack — starting in silicon and extending through firmware, host controllers, attestation, and immutable supply-chain evidence. The company’s...

In a volatile escalation of employee activism and public scrutiny, 18 people were arrested at Microsoft’s Redmond, Washington, campus on August 20, 2025, after demonstrators — including current and former Microsoft staff — splashed red paint on the company’s signage, set up an encampment on...

A small but highly visible standoff at Microsoft’s Redmond campus this week crystallized a wider crisis for the company: employees confronting management over allegations that Microsoft’s cloud and AI technologies have been used by the Israeli military to store and process mass surveillance data...

A coordinated pair of stories surfaced this week that together sketch two urgent and contrasting dilemmas at the intersection of technology, power, and public life: investigative reporting that Israeli military intelligence has been using Microsoft’s Azure cloud to store and analyze massive...

Microsoft’s decision to expand its use of Marvell’s LiquidSecurity hardware security modules into the Azure Cloud HSM offering marks a notable vote of confidence in cloud-optimized HSM architectures — and sharpens the competitive contours of the HSM-as-a-service market as enterprise customers...

Microsoft has selected Marvell’s LiquidSecurity family of hardware security modules (HSMs) to power its Azure Cloud HSM offering — a move that consolidates Marvell’s role across Azure’s key management portfolio and brings FIPS 140‑3 Level 3‑certified, high‑density PCIe HSMs into Microsoft’s...

Title: Should .NET Developers Learn Azure or AWS in 2025? By: [Your Name], Senior IT Reporter — WindowsForum.com Lead Short answer: It depends. For .NET developers entrenched in Microsoft shops and regulated industries, Azure remains the most pragmatic first move. For those aiming for broad...

Capgemini’s delivery of SAP S/4HANA on Microsoft Azure for ProRail marks a compact, pragmatic leap for the Dutch rail infrastructure body — a fast, cloud-first ERP modernization that promises improved user experience, greater scalability, and a platform for continued digital transformation while...

Microsoft's August security rollup is one of those months that makes system administrators stop what they're doing and triage: this Patch Tuesday delivered fixes for a broad sweep of vulnerabilities across Windows, Exchange, Azure and related services — including a publicly disclosed Kerberos...

Title: Urgent: CVE-2025-49707 — Azure Virtual Machines Improper Access Control Allows Local Spoofing (What IT Teams Must Do Now) Summary Microsoft has published guidance for CVE-2025-49707: an improper access-control vulnerability in Azure Virtual Machines that allows an authorized attacker to...

Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-53723: a numeric truncation error in Windows Hyper‑V that Microsoft classifies as an Elevation of Privilege (EoP) vulnerability; the vendor states an authorized local attacker can exploit the flaw to escalate privileges on affected hosts...

Microsoft’s latest expansion of Defender for Cloud into its U.S. Government cloud offerings delivers long‑promised parity for server protection and brings Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) to sovereign environments — a practical uplift for agencies that must balance stringent compliance...